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Zig Ziglar Quotes and Sayings
Quotes by Zig Ziglar

People often say that motivation doesn't last.
Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.
- Zig Ziglar

Related topics: Motivational

Money won't make you happy...
but everybody wants to find out for themselves.
- Zig Ziglar

Your attitude determines your altitude.
- Zig Ziglar

You can have anything you want in life if you
just help enough other people get what they want.
- Zig Ziglar

Positive thinking will let you do everything
better than negative thinking will.
- Zig Ziglar

People Quotes and Sayings

A common denominator of all religions is that
they have the power to bring out the best and the worst in people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung

I hear many people talk about their longing for a balanced life.
What I think they are really expressing
is a desire for a life with less pressure.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Life is like dancing.
If we have a big floor, many people will dance.
Some will get angry when the rhythm changes.
But life is changing all the time.
- don Miguel Ruiz

People will do anything, no matter how absurd,
to avoid facing their own souls.
- Carl Jung

People that seem so glorious are all show;
underneath they are like everyone else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great minds discuss ideas;
average minds discuss events;
small minds discuss people.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
- Henry David Thoreau

People can be more forgiving than you can imagine.
But you have to forgive yourself.
Let go of what's bitter and move on.
- Bill Cosby

Life is a process of becoming,
a combination of states we have to go through.
Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state
and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
- Anais Nin

Most truths are so naked
that people feel sorry for them
and cover them up,
at least a little bit.
- Edward R. Murrow

I'm actually starting to like more and more people
who have convictions that are unpopular.
- Bono

Fear makes strangers of people
who would otherwise be friends.
- Shirley MacLaine

Life - for most people - is their past projected large
onto the movie screen of their future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

People are afraid, very much afraid of those who know themselves.
They have a certain power, a certain aura and a certain magnetism.
- Osho

People don't care how much you know
until they know how much they care.
- John C. Maxwell

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity
opinions which differ from
the prejudices of their social environment.
Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
- Albert Einstein

Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky

Nothing other people do is because of you.
It is because of themselves
- don Miguel Ruiz

When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life
as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
- Joseph Campbell

Inspire people to do things for themselves.
Inspire people to think for themselves.
- Bono

We are injured and hurt emotionally,
not so much by other people
or what they say and don't say,
but by our own attitude and our own response.
- Maxwell Maltz

I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece.
I challenge you to join the ranks of those people
who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
- Tony Robbins

The great pleasure in life is doing
what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot

Love is what makes two people
sit in the middle of a park bench
when there is plenty of room at both ends.
- Anonymous

There are two kinds of people,
those who do the work,
and those who take the credit.
Try to be in the first group;
there is less competition there.
- Indira Gandhi

I think you're the opposite of a paranoid.
I think you go around with the insane delusion that people like you.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry

The most successful people in life
are generally those who have the best information.
- Benjamin Disraeli

Clothes make the man.
Naked people have little or no influence on society.
- Mark Twain

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus

Always do the right thing.
It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
- Mark Twain

Never tell people how to do things.
Tell them what to do and they will
surprise you with their ingenuity.
- George S. Patton

A leader is most effective when people barely know he exists.
When his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
his troops will feel they did it themselves.
- Lao Tzu

Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands?
And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.
- John Lennon

Too many people spend money they haven't earned,
to buy things they don't want,
to impress people they don't like.
- Will Rogers

I wanted to see exotic Vietnam, the jewel of Southeast Asia.
I, uh, I wanted to meet interesting
and stimulating people of an ancient culture,
and kill them.
- the movie Full Metal Jacket

One may as well dam for water tanks
the people's cathedrals and churches,
for no holier temple has ever
been consecrated by the heart of man.
- John Muir

I was wise enough to never grow up
while fooling most people into believing I had.
- Margaret Mead

Once you have mastered time,
you will understand how true it is that
most people overestimate what
they can accomplish in a year -
and underestimate what
they can achieve in a decade!
- Tony Robbins

A hero may or may not lead other people,
but all heroes lead themselves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

When one gets angry, it is always angry AT someone -
perhaps a friend or spouse, perhaps a stranger,
perhaps the nameless "they" - "those people at the bank wronged me,"
perhaps God, or perhaps oneself.
In any case, when one gets angry,
they want to find someone to be "responsible" for what happened.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
- Albert Einstein

Don't try to manage people;
You manage things; You lead people.
- Grace Hopper

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize
how close they were to success when they gave up.
- Thomas Edison

My definition of success is to live your life in a way
that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain -
and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel
a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
- Tony Robbins

Successful people are simply those with successful habits.
- Brian Tracy

People are not lazy.
They simply have impotent goals -
that is, goals that do not inspire them.
- Tony Robbins

Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.
- Albert Schweitzer

History is the version of past events
that people have decided to agree upon.
- Napoleon Bonaparte

I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man,
and I hate people like that!
- Tom Lehrer

Instead of worrying about what people say of you,
why not spend time trying to accomplish
something they will admire.
- Dale Carnegie

To lead people walk behind them.
- Lao Tzu

Opportunity is missed by most people
because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
- Thomas Edison

You don't lead by hitting people over the head -
that's assault, not leadership.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

One good reason to only maintain a small circle of friends
is that three out of four murders
are committed by people who know the victim.
- George Carlin

Look at this butterfly, so beautiful, so delicate.
I can enjoy this butterfly from a distance,
but if I touched her, she would die.
While not quite as delicate as butterflies,
people also need private space and private time
away from the demands of the world -
even away from the attentions of those
with whom they are most bonded.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A leader is best when people barely know he exists;
when his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
they will say: we did it ourselves.
- Lao Tzu

Too bad all the people who know how to run this country
are busy running taxicabs or cutting hair.
- George Burns

Thinking is what most people resort to after all else fails.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles;
but today it means getting along with people.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Success has a simple formula:
do your best, and people may like it.
- Sam Ewing

This is the answer to all questions about relationship.
When two people sing their lives in harmony,
their lives are grand.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

People who work together will win,
whether it be against complex football defenses,
or the problems of modern society.
- Vince Lombardi

I'm sure we all agree that we ought to love one another
and I know there are people in the world
that do not love their fellow human beings
and I HATE people like that.
- Tom Lehrer

Half the world is composed of idiots,
the other half, of people clever enough
to take indecent advantage of them.
- Walter Kerr

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      - Jonathan Lockwood Huie